Matthew Rothschild: Bush Rewrites History of Vietnam War

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from The Progressive:


Bush Rewrites History of Vietnam War
August 22, 2007 By Matthew Rothschild


You can tell Bush is really getting desperate because now he himself is bringing up the Vietnam War.

But instead of recognizing it for what it was—a reckless imperial overreach, just like his own Iraq War—Bush twists the history of the Vietnam War to try to buttress the one he’s got us in now.

Check this out: He says we should have stayed in Vietnam longer.

“The price of America’s withdrawal was paid by millions of innocent citizens,” he told the Veterans of Foreign Wars. By the way, he’s counting the victims of the Khmer Rouge, who came to power only after the U.S. ruined Cambodia.

And he’s not counting the three million people the U.S. killed in Southeast Asia during that war.

Just as he’s not counting the 70,000 to 700,000 civilian Iraqis his war has killed, or the one in ten who have been forced to leave their homes.

As Kissinger and Nixon did in Vietnam, so Bush is doing in Iraq: arguing that withdrawal will damage the credibility of the United States and embolden our enemies. To back up that point, Bush wheels out bin Laden, who has become useful again (rather than a total embarrassment) for the Administration. Since bin Laden cites Vietnam as a signal of American weakness, Bush concludes that America can never withdraw again from a war.

But what Bush doesn’t yet grasp—though the CIA has admitted—is that the U.S. occupation of Iraq is, today, serving as a recruiting device for Al Qaeda. ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.progressive.org/mag_wx082207

[Bitwit1234]

1. He probably gave himself a couple of Purple Hearts and the Medal of Honor

while he was at it...if we could go into the future and see the way the republcans are going to re-write history about bush the coward we would probably all be suprised.